Shannon N. Davis and Theodore N. Greenstein
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447336747
- eISBN:
- 9781447336792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447336747.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Chapter 5 describes each of the classes documented in the book (Ultra-traditional, Traditional, Transitional Husbands, Egalitarian, and Egalitarian High Workload) based upon couple and individual ...
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Chapter 5 describes each of the classes documented in the book (Ultra-traditional, Traditional, Transitional Husbands, Egalitarian, and Egalitarian High Workload) based upon couple and individual demographic characteristics. Not only do we include basic demographic characteristics (e.g., race, religion, and marital distribution) but we also document how measures of power are distributed across the classes. We also describe who is in each of the five housework classes based upon labor market characteristics, income, and gender ideology.Less
Chapter 5 describes each of the classes documented in the book (Ultra-traditional, Traditional, Transitional Husbands, Egalitarian, and Egalitarian High Workload) based upon couple and individual demographic characteristics. Not only do we include basic demographic characteristics (e.g., race, religion, and marital distribution) but we also document how measures of power are distributed across the classes. We also describe who is in each of the five housework classes based upon labor market characteristics, income, and gender ideology.
Shannon N. Davis and Theodore N. Greenstein
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447336747
- eISBN:
- 9781447336792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447336747.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
In Chapter 2 of the book we provide a review of the theoretical and empirical scholarship that has studied housework and document how power dynamics have been integral to both strands of scholarship. ...
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In Chapter 2 of the book we provide a review of the theoretical and empirical scholarship that has studied housework and document how power dynamics have been integral to both strands of scholarship. We present reviews of time availability, relative resources, bargaining, gender ideology, and economic dependence perspectives. We explain how power has been implicit in previous theorizing than then present our argument for the use of housework to understand power within the social exchange that is an intimate relationship.Less
In Chapter 2 of the book we provide a review of the theoretical and empirical scholarship that has studied housework and document how power dynamics have been integral to both strands of scholarship. We present reviews of time availability, relative resources, bargaining, gender ideology, and economic dependence perspectives. We explain how power has been implicit in previous theorizing than then present our argument for the use of housework to understand power within the social exchange that is an intimate relationship.
Brian D. Earp
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- October 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198862086
- eISBN:
- 9780191927195
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198862086.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, General
This chapter evaluates the abolition of gender. There is a powerful set of assumptions in Western culture that influences how many of us think about sex and gender, even if we are not always fully ...
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This chapter evaluates the abolition of gender. There is a powerful set of assumptions in Western culture that influences how many of us think about sex and gender, even if we are not always fully aware of it. This set of assumptions can be called the “Dominant Gender Ideology” (DGI). Some people think it would better if sex was not linked to socially enforced gender roles that prescribe how people should be and behave on the basis of their sex. And their proposal for how to bring about this better future is to banish gender roles — and associated cultural norms — altogether. However, not everyone is a gender abolitionist. Many people think that gender roles are appropriate or worthwhile, perhaps even “natural” and inevitable. On one end of this spectrum are socially conservative religious people. At the other end of the spectrum are (some) progressive people who believe that gender can help members of certain disadvantaged groups make sense of their own minds and bodies in our social world.Less
This chapter evaluates the abolition of gender. There is a powerful set of assumptions in Western culture that influences how many of us think about sex and gender, even if we are not always fully aware of it. This set of assumptions can be called the “Dominant Gender Ideology” (DGI). Some people think it would better if sex was not linked to socially enforced gender roles that prescribe how people should be and behave on the basis of their sex. And their proposal for how to bring about this better future is to banish gender roles — and associated cultural norms — altogether. However, not everyone is a gender abolitionist. Many people think that gender roles are appropriate or worthwhile, perhaps even “natural” and inevitable. On one end of this spectrum are socially conservative religious people. At the other end of the spectrum are (some) progressive people who believe that gender can help members of certain disadvantaged groups make sense of their own minds and bodies in our social world.
Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190490263
- eISBN:
- 9780190868673
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190490263.003.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology, Plant Sciences and Forestry
Chapter one describes “The Quandary Over Plant Sex” in its historical context. The sexual role of pollen wasn’t discovered until the late 17th century, suggesting a deep cultural bias. Beliefs ...
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Chapter one describes “The Quandary Over Plant Sex” in its historical context. The sexual role of pollen wasn’t discovered until the late 17th century, suggesting a deep cultural bias. Beliefs concerning sex in humans, from Galen and Aristotle onward, were influenced by gender ideology. The lower social status of women suggested a one-sex model, whereby female character and physiology were construed as deficient versions of the male. Plants, because of their association with women, came to be regarded as female. Flowers are often emblematic of women in literature, but flowers seem to produce fruits without carnality, by parthenogenesis. In paintings of the Annunciation, the lily appears almost as regularly as the angel Gabriel as a symbol of Mary’s purity. The association of flowers with female purity hindered the discovery of sex in plants. Although most people are aware of pollen, widespread confusion about its role in sexual reproduction still lingers.Less
Chapter one describes “The Quandary Over Plant Sex” in its historical context. The sexual role of pollen wasn’t discovered until the late 17th century, suggesting a deep cultural bias. Beliefs concerning sex in humans, from Galen and Aristotle onward, were influenced by gender ideology. The lower social status of women suggested a one-sex model, whereby female character and physiology were construed as deficient versions of the male. Plants, because of their association with women, came to be regarded as female. Flowers are often emblematic of women in literature, but flowers seem to produce fruits without carnality, by parthenogenesis. In paintings of the Annunciation, the lily appears almost as regularly as the angel Gabriel as a symbol of Mary’s purity. The association of flowers with female purity hindered the discovery of sex in plants. Although most people are aware of pollen, widespread confusion about its role in sexual reproduction still lingers.
